A quick look showed that much of Picasa already worked,
but key features were missing: the IWebBrowser API, [..]
among others. Fortunately, Wine was
already halfway to having an implementation of IWebBrowser
thanks to Jacek Caban's Summer of Code 2005 project.
So as I understand it Google funded the development of the IE emulation part (or whatever you may want to call it) of Wine to make Picasa run with Wine.
So why did LMI send the letter to these businesses then? Shouldn't it be LMI's job (or their lawyers' job) to at least superficially check if the recipients infringe the Linux trademark before sending out their letters?
You can use jigdo to only download the files that are newer than the files on your CDs. It should be possible to scan multiple CDs, jigdo keeps asking for locations of old files until you simply hit the enter key. I don't know if jigdo mounts and unmounts the CDs for you, maybe you have to do this from another console.
But it's probably easier to download the full ISO (or buy the CDs/DVDs) since so much has changed since woody that you probably can't reuse many files.
you install something that isn't packaged with your distros packaging system you break the package management completely
I've never actually seen this happen myself, but I'll take your word for it:). Anyone have any horror stories to share? Does it happen with actual packages, or only if you install from source?
Try installing your software into/usr/local. When using a tool like stow, you can uninstall the software you have compiled from source. The package database remains completely unaffected.
Simply read the TeX files and imagine what the output would look like...
Who would want to write lecture notes with Powerpoint? Getting symbols and equations right in MS Word is a real PITA, and I imagine Powerpoint isn't any better at this.
I would think that almost all consumer electronics are manufactured in south east asia anyway, the US companies only put their logos on it.
Films and music on the other hand are major export articles for the US economy.
I don't see why old hardware should be left behind. I still have a 133 Mhz, 64 MB ram, in the closet doing SETI, and other work i want it to do. So what if it is slow, it can still encode my DVD's into MPEG4.
So how long does it take to encode a single DVD? I have a 166 MHz Pentium standing around. Maybe if I let it running a whole week, it will be finished converting a DVD to SVCD format.
In fact, a new version was released roughly every 12 months, at least in the beginning. Then it took about 18 months from potato to woody, and now three years have passed since the release of woody...
But how do we as IT people explain the general public this would be a disaster to European economy? What could start some emotion going for this issue? The customer is also going to be victimised! Low quality and low security software galore probably. But do they know?
Tell them that all this swpat bullshit will probably cost many jobs, and that in a time when many EU countries already have problems with unemployment rates.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this notice seems to say that only "consumers in the United States" can take part in this settlement.
I still don't know if RC2 discs have the same problems as the RC1 ones. I doubt that MGM uses completely different mastering processes for each region.
AFAICS this won't help to reduce the amount of spam you receive, since most of it comes from trojaned PCs with a broadband connection, these seem to be located mainly in the US, Europe and Latin America.
Your block will only prevent you from visiting the spammers' websites hosted by Chinese ISPs.
Don't be too quick to assume that other nations will have less oppressive "intellectual property" laws in the future just because the USA seem to screw it up badly right now. Big Money and their government henchmen do all that they can to bring the same kind of legislation to other regions of the world, all in the interest of "harmonization" and "being competitive". E.g. we here in the EU some time ago got some shiny new DMCA-like legislation called EUCD.
The US government sees "intellectual property" as America's most important export goods and will make sure that other nations join the IP jihad.
The IBM voice recognition software, called VoiceType, came free with OS/2 Warp 4. It allowed to dictate texts in a word processor, but also to use voice commands for OS and GUI functions.
Of course there's no danger of this at the moment. But the parent poster was talking about a hypothetical situation where Apple would have a similar market share like MS today. I agree with you that this is extremely unlikely to happen in the market for desktop PCs, however Apple has a dominant position when it comes to digital music services and portable players.
I want to have choices, so I think it's a good thing when Apple is doing well with their Macs, and Linux, *BSD and whatever else there is that competes with MS in the OS market. On the other hand, I would like to see competitors like iRiver, Creative etc. catch up to the iPod.
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So why did LMI send the letter to these businesses then? Shouldn't it be LMI's job (or their lawyers' job) to at least superficially check if the recipients infringe the Linux trademark before sending out their letters?
But the distribution people mean when they say "Debian" is officially called Debian GNU/Linux.
That's wrong, 2005 has also been declared Einstein Year in Germany. If you happen to know German, you can read about it here. :-)
But it's probably easier to download the full ISO (or buy the CDs/DVDs) since so much has changed since woody that you probably can't reuse many files.
Or even better, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list :-)
Who would want to write lecture notes with Powerpoint? Getting symbols and equations right in MS Word is a real PITA, and I imagine Powerpoint isn't any better at this.
There's a very short explanation here
I would think that almost all consumer electronics are manufactured in south east asia anyway, the US companies only put their logos on it. Films and music on the other hand are major export articles for the US economy.
Maybe it's better to call one of these two versions Treacherous Computing then?
So what did he talk about?
Tell them that all this swpat bullshit will probably cost many jobs, and that in a time when many EU countries already have problems with unemployment rates.
"You're the doc, doc."
I still don't know if RC2 discs have the same problems as the RC1 ones. I doubt that MGM uses completely different mastering processes for each region.
Your block will only prevent you from visiting the spammers' websites hosted by Chinese ISPs.
Maybe the Crimson Permanent Insurance came around and paid them a visit?
The US government sees "intellectual property" as America's most important export goods and will make sure that other nations join the IP jihad.
The IBM voice recognition software, called VoiceType, came free with OS/2 Warp 4. It allowed to dictate texts in a word processor, but also to use voice commands for OS and GUI functions.
I want to have choices, so I think it's a good thing when Apple is doing well with their Macs, and Linux, *BSD and whatever else there is that competes with MS in the OS market. On the other hand, I would like to see competitors like iRiver, Creative etc. catch up to the iPod.